kevemaher
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| Surprised at how turntable sounds One needs to spend as much on LP playing gear as you've spent on the digital side in order to make a valid comparison. The table and cartridge you picked are bottom of the line. There's no way you'll get sound comparable to digital with this rig.... | |
| Three favorite LP’s 1. Al Stewart's "Modern Times". Great orchestration and excellent songwriting. 2. Richard Wagner -"The Ring of the Nibelung", Solti conducting. Yeah, I know this is thirteen or so LPs. Epic. 3. Anton Dvorak - "The New World Symphony". Mehta cond... | |
| Why I don't think I'll ever return to vinyl - brief rant Some of us actually enjoy the sometimes herculean effort to make playing LPs sound better. Not better than any other medium. Better than I have ever heard LPs sound on my system. I'm a retired engineer who now gets his technical thrills from deve... | |
| Volume Adjustment It is probably not linear, but some form of logarithmic response. Create a chart of output vs setting number. Plot it. The chart will show if there's a jump or a break from a smooth curve. Curve should be smooth. Not necessarily linear, but smooth... | |
| tube suggestions/ brand new to tubes Go to Audiotubes. There are detailed descriptions of each tube type you've mentioned. And it is a good source for purchase of NOS tubes. Check out Fuzz audio. Lots of useful info and tubes for sale. I would avoid current production tubes except ... | |
| Chesky RCA Living Stereo Reissues vs. Analogue Productions Reissues The Chesky LPs are uniformly fantastic. They have a way of expressing classical music that is the closest I've ever heard to the sound you'll get from a warm sounding opera or symphony house. Too bad they've stopped making these. The AP issues ma... | |
| Listening and evaluating equipment and systems. I listen critically. But sometimes I want some music background while I do other things. So I turn my Tuner on (remember them?) and listen to a classical station through my system. I don't stream because that requires intervention by the listen... | |
| The Best Music You Have Ever Heard? Wagner's "Die Walkure" (The Valkyrie) live at the San Fran Opera House opened my 20 something eyes and ears to the wonder of opera and live orchestral music. This transformed my opinion of opera from being a very stuffy, pretentious art form to o... | |
| Siltech says TMR sold me a fake cable but I want to believe TMR The whole boutique cable business is a fraud. | |
| Speaker placement and soundstage There is no such thing as "pressuring" the room. Sound waves are a combination of alternating high and low pressure regions. "Pressurizing" a room usually means enhancing rather than decreasing the effects of room resonances. One needs to decreas... | |
| Haitink Mahler 5 on DECCA Pure Analog @audphile1 I have the new release of Mahler's 5th plus the Adagio from the 10th. The sound is horrible. Hard to listen to highs.My system is definitely on the warm side, but didn't tame this LP at all. I immediately put it into the :Never List... | |
| “You have to open a door or window to let the pressure out of the room.” The only benefit of an open door in an audio room is that it prevents some of the sound from reflecting off the door that used to be there. No walls at all would be the optimum situation. That's not achievable in a domestic situation. It is true... | |
| Speaker placement and soundstage Playing around with the toe-in will definitely alter the soundstage. The less toe-in the wider the soundstage, usually. One can also angle both speakers towards the opposite ear or beyond. Gotta experiment. After adjusting, check the center "phant... | |
| Anyone in the US that can repair turntables What's the brand and model #? A Service Manual might help. Check HIfi Engine. They have a huge library of manuals. There's probably an adjustment that sets the servo. Perhaps this adjustment is a bit out of whack. But of course, read the Service... | |
| Volume Adjustment @teboerio The pot may have oxidized. DeOxit spray can be used, but be careful to keep it away from other components. Let it dry thoroughly before turning power on again. If this doesn't work, it may be possible to disassemble the pot and clean... |